Visit to The Parenting Place

Today a bunch of us all traipsed up to Greenlane to vist The Parenting Place. It's a lovely place - lots of room with huge beanbags to relax in, an ultra-sized rocking horse to wow the kids, a huge interative computer screen for the kids to play with and best of all - coffee!!!

The Parenting Place holds a number of different seminars designed to help today's parent raise their kids with confidence. (Subjects include: Baby Massage, Toolbox, The Strong-willed Child etc) Visit their website for next term's schedule of seminars.

Reminders

1. Girls Night Out - Lone Star, Manukau. Meet at 7.30pm on Thursday 23rd June for dinner. Sort your babysitters now.

2. End of Term is approaching - please email me with any ideas you might have for our calendar next term.

3. Next week we're off to The Parenting Place at Greenlane. Meet at our church at 9.45am - we'll be on the road by 10am.

Enjoy your weeks!

Why Don't Friends With Kids Have Time?

I'm pretty sure anyone with kids will enjoy this article...

Little Lee has a name! - Isaac Michael Lee!

Isaac means laughter and is a very fitting name for this little baby! Here are a couple more photo's for you to see Sam enjoying his brother and giving him his first cuddles. Doesn't he look truly excited, so lovely to see! What a fine family you have Monique.

Sushi making with Tokiko

Thank you again Tokiko for sharing your skills in sushi making with us!

We really appreciate you giving up your time and for helping us make this scrumptious food. Today we got a turn to make our own sushi (yes it can be done!) and then to eat the plentiful amounts we had made.





Here is the sushi recipe for today:






Rice: 2 Cups medium grain white rice (cooked), 1 Cup brown rice (cooked)
3 Tbsp rice vinegar - Heat until sugar and salt are dissolved and mix into rice
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp salt

Omelet: 5 Eggs, 1 Tbspn sugar, pinch of salt - Fry into an omelet

Tuna: 185g tin of tuna, 1/4 onion finely chopped, 2 Tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley, 1 Tbsp Lite Best Foods Mayo

Teriyaki Chicken: Chicken breast cut into strips, Cook chicken breast in a fry pan.
Remove then add:
3 Tbsp Mirin (rice wine)
3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
3 Tbsp Sugar - Can also add boiled carrot and cucumber.
Heat until thickened slightly then add chicken back in.


Place rice and then filling on seaweed and roll.
ENJOY!

Welcome baby Lee!

A huge Congratulations go out to Monique, Justin and Samuel Lee as Monique gave birth to her little baby boy around 3.56am Sunday 31st May. The little baby does not have a confirmed name yet but that will be updated for you all soon. "Baby Lee" was 10lb 12oz!~! We are all looking forward to meeting you baby and we are thrilled for this new addition to the family and to our lives at Wondermums

Kiwi Baking with Lois!

A huge thanks to Lois for coming back to WonderMums and sharing her baking expertise & knowledge with us. A big group of us were able to enjoy chatting, watching the cooking, and questioning Lois for tips.

The recipies which were demonstrated (& we all enjoyed munching!) are listed below for you to download. There is a Word doc or a PDF doc depending on what you want. Each of these recipies approx cost is below $5 each also! Which is brilliant when you're working to a budget.



Pavlova (fail-proof recipie) -(DOC 27kb) or (PDF 23kb)
Pinwheel Scones -(DOC 28kb) or (PDF 24kb)
Apple Pie -(DOC 27kb) or (PDF 24kb)
Chocolate Fudge Slice -(DOC 27kb) or (PDF 24kb)

Link to some of Lois' recipies from last year...